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community member I am a parent of children that attend Vanderbilt school. I do not have a player on the varsity team, but I was there on wed night. As someone in the community I was completely shocked and embarrassed with what happened at the game. Not even knowing what happened with the girls, it was the fact that one of the parents stood across the gym from Coach Rupe and yelled things inappropriate in front of other parents, community members, wolverine school, and OUR CHILDREN!

OTSEGO COUNTY ? A Harbor Springs man is dead following a motorcycle accident involving a pickup on Friday at approximately 6 p.m. This is the second fatal accident in Otsego County this summer involving a motorcycle, according to Mike Hoeft, American Bikers Aiming Towards Education (ABATE) regional coordinator. Motorcyclist Randall C. Saddison, 57, was pronounced dead at the scene Friday. According to Michigan State Police reports from the Gaylord post, Saddison was southbound on Old 27 north of Vanderbilt when a 16-year-old driver from Vanderbilt who was northbound on Old 27 reportedly made a left-hand turn in front of three motorcyclists.

Sports Editor VANDERBILT ? After a week of pain, it?s time for the healing to begin in Vanderbilt. That was the theme of Wednesday?s board of education meeting as President Bernie Matelski said it was time for the community to move beyond the girls basketball team?s Jan. 7 forfeiture. That forfeiture started a snowball of dissension within the community that included suspension of the four girls on the team and the resignation of Coach Chris Rupe. During the public comment section of the meeting, parents from both sides of the issue spoke passionately, with a five minute speaking limit, the meeting moved forward without further incident.

LANSING - Five months after the Bay Mills Indian Community opened a small casino in Vanderbilt in November 2010, a federal judge struck down an appeal by the tribe to remain open and ordered the 84 slot machine operation closed until the matter could resolved in the courts at a future date. In March 2011, federal Judge Paul L. Maloney ruled in favor of an injunction filed against the Bay Mills tribe on behalf of the state attorney general's office and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, who asserted the tribe had illegally opened the Vanderbilt casino and was not operating on Indian land as claimed by Bay Mills leaders.

The Michigan Attorney General entered his first legal brief to the Supreme Court last week in a case that could determine the future of where Native American casinos are allowed to be located. Bay Mills Indian Community, based in the Upper Peninsula, has been trying to build a slot casino in Vanderbilt since 2010, but has been halted since the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the state of Michigan filed lawsuits the same year to stop the operation. The state alleges that the tribe is violating its tribal gaming compact.

Brewer had reportedly left the Wayne County area Jan. 18, in violation of his parole for a 1988 second-degree homicide-murder conviction for which he served 14 years in prison. He was believed to have been in the Otsego County area for approximately one week prior to his arrest. Troopers said Brewer was apprehended at his brother-in-law's home in Vanderbilt around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Authorities do not believe Brewer's brother-in-law was aware he was wanted as an escapee from Wayne County and that charges against the Vanderbilt man for harboring a fugitive were unlikely.